Teen
Posted 4 weeks 3 days ago by Linsey Knerl
Education, Learning Tools, Home School, High School, Higher Education
What do statistics and cartoons have in common? They are both combined beautifully in a new study guide for students that blew me away with its practicality and possibilities. Intrigued? This book is just the beginning.
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Posted 5 weeks 2 days ago by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
Education, Learning Tools, Home School, Pre School, K-8, High School, Higher Education, Parent-Teacher, Extra Curricular
Stuck without a way to make your children think of something besides their lists for Santa? Join my family as we participate in Amnesty International's Holiday Card Action.
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Posted 10 weeks 2 days ago by Linsey Knerl
Health, Vaccines
Hate em’ or love em’ shots are one of the best ways to prevent the flu. If you’re planning for your entire family or just need a place to start, here’s the skinny on the bug and where to find its injectable demise.
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Posted 10 weeks 2 days ago by Lori Kerrigan
Planning, Adoption
Adoption Education….more than educational? Here is a review of our adoption education & how it not only educated us, but encouraged us and changed our perspective on many adoption elements. Oh...and don't forget the "must have" resources that were presented to us.
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Posted 12 weeks 4 days ago by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
Extra Curricular
Want your kids to do something meaningful this Halloween besides start on a a new cavity? Consider reconnecting with an old American tradition: Trick or Treat for UNICEF.
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Posted 13 weeks 5 days ago by Fred Lee
Safety, Home Life
Sometimes being a good parent means taking a step back and letting kids make mistakes.
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Posted 14 weeks 6 days ago by Lori Kerrigan
Finances, Work Balance
Are you trying to work-from-home? When searching for a work-from-home job one important thing to look out for is scams...if it looks too good to be true, it just might be!
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Posted 15 weeks 3 days ago by Linsey Knerl
Home Life, Social Skills, Entertainment, Culture
I was prepared to hate this remake of my favorite teen drama growing up. After all, it had gotten the Parent’s Television Council to call for a boycott after only the first show. Not being one to let anyone make decisions for my family, I decided to screen the show myself. My findings were shocking -- but not in the way you would think.
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Posted 16 weeks 4 days ago by Linsey Knerl
Health, Healthcare, Allergies, Diseases & Disorders
It's that time of year. School has started, and even though we home school, we're officially “carriers” for the latest form of kiddie plague. The coughing has come full-force, and I lay awake at night listening to tiny hacks and moans, wondering what more I could do. Here's an official guide to the most common causes, and what you can do to help.
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Posted 20 weeks 6 days ago by Sherry Pardy
Sex & Relationships, No Children Zone, Work Balance
Can't get out for a date? Why not bring Date Night In!
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Posted 22 weeks 13 hours ago by Corina Fiore
Safety, Home Life, Social Skills, Relocation, Entertainment, Learning Tools, Culture, Relationships
I miss the olden days. You know, the olden days like 20 years ago. Life seemed different then. You belonged to a community, a neighborhood. The people in your neighborhood were part of your extended family. At some point in the last 20 years, the neighborhood has succumbed to death.
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Posted 22 weeks 5 days ago by Fred Marmorstein
Education
Children's ability to read with conviction is still being undermined by our educational institutions.
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Posted 24 weeks 2 days ago by Paul Michael
Social Skills, Culture, Relationships, K-8, High School, Higher Education
Once upon a time, it was Pig-Latin. These days, the Internet has created several ways for both children and adults to communicate with each other. In part one of this series, I'll give you a list of the most common acronyms or "initialisms" that your children are using daily, via the web and phone. Some of these you will be familiar with already; some may shock you.
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Posted 24 weeks 2 days ago by Fred Lee
Nutrition
The time has come to give more credibility to the notion that we are what we eat.
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Posted 25 weeks 18 hours ago by Lori Kerrigan
Finances, Shopping, Relocation, Entertainment, Time Management
Tired of cooking? Does your budget not stretch enough to cover dining out with the entire family? Check out these restaurants where kids eat free....or really cheap!
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Posted 27 weeks 1 day ago by Linsey Knerl
Education, Learning Tools, Home School, K-8, High School
When I started homeschooling a few years ago, I was excited to order the materials – which included more books, manuals, worksheets, and supplemental items than I could possibly store on our bookshelf. The practicality of “traditional” text-based curriculum soon wore thin. Read on to see how software saved the day.
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Posted 27 weeks 6 days ago by Sherry Pardy
Chores, Discipline, Home Life, Finances, Shopping, New Parents
According to a recent New York Times article, the fact my husband does the laundry makes us trendy parents. Who knew?
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Posted 28 weeks 3 hours ago by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
Culture
As a mostly vegetarian, hippie genX-er--a non-TV watching, non-consumer driven parent-- I have purposely failed my children miserably by hiding from them vital cultural icons of American life. But all that is about to change with two Happy Meals...
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Posted 28 weeks 2 days ago by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
Entertainment
Gas prices have you and the kids home for the summer? You might want to give the interactive DVD TripFlix a try and do some couch traveling in an air conditioned living room with teens Alex and Emily to 25 destinations across the USA.
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Posted 28 weeks 5 days ago by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
Culture, Sex Ed, Relationships
Wow. It really is happening. All across California gays and lesbians are getting married. Their children, we children will all be legitimized in a way we haven't been before. I spent the weekend talking to a gay dad raising sons (being Father's Day weekend) here's what's been tripping around my conversations. I talked to a few women on the verge of marriage. Here's what I heard and remembered.
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